Skydiving Magazine Subscription refunds

[EirAnne 0]

If you live outside the U.S. and have received a refund from your Skydiving magazine subscription and have discovered that it will cost more to cash it in than it is worth I would like to be cheeky and suggest a way to put the money to good use. If you send it to me I will put all of the money towards my Jump For the Cause sponsorship target. If you are interested in putting the money to a good cause, please PM me and I will send you details of where to send the money.
Thanks and blue skies
Anne

PS Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, please feel free to move it.

[aphid 0]

(Disclaimer: I financially support JFTC through a couple of Canadian ladies)

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If you live outside the U.S. and have received a refund from your Skydiving magazine subscription and have discovered that it will cost more to cash it in than it is worth

Don't know what you're driving at. Speaking only for Canada, NO major chartered bank* charges a fee to cash or deposit a cheque. No matter where it's from.

* You know, the "highly regulated banks in that socialist country to the North", who have not required - yet - taxpayers money for a bail-out.

John

PS: While I too will sorely miss the magazine, kudo's to Mike for winding down his company in a truly honourable fashion complete with full refunds for his subscribers. Sadly, that type of integrity likely wouldn't get you a cup of coffee on Wall Street.

[EirAnne 0]

Some British friends recently advised me that it was more expensive to cash the checks in their UK banks than the value of the checks themselves.
I haven't checked into the costs for every country, but am offering the JTFC option for those who have run into that issue.

[MakeItHappen 15]

There is even a better opportunity for your SNM refund checks.

I have contacted City of Hope about this today. City of Hope is the beneficiary of JFTC 2009.

You can endorse your check, sign it over to City of Hope and send it directly to City of Hope.
City of Hope
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, California USA 91010

On the good news side of things, 3M is offering a matching donation for the first $100,000 donation in 2009.

Mention that you would like 3M to match your gift and your refund check goes TWICE as far for the City of Hope.


This is a much better plan than sending your check to a JFTC participant and having that money used for jumps, jumpsuit, motel, food and other things before the 'excess' is given to City of Hope.

Your money gets directly to City of Hope without 'costs' subtracted from it and it gets DOUBLED by 3M - the maker of those cool post-it notes.

Please send your money to City of Hope directly.


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DiveMaker

[CSpenceFLY 1]

I bet it's a good thing you don't except PMs.

[chuckakers 426]

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If you live outside the U.S. and have received a refund from your Skydiving magazine subscription and have discovered that it will cost more to cash it in than it is worth I would like to be cheeky and suggest a way to put the money to good use. If you send it to me I will put all of the money towards my Jump For the Cause sponsorship target. If you are interested in putting the money to a good cause, please PM me and I will send you details of where to send the money.
Thanks and blue skies
Anne

PS Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, please feel free to move it.

You really want my $1.19? (I still can't figure out how that was what they owed me)

Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX

[BikerBabe 0]

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There is even a better opportunity for your SNM refund checks.

I have contacted City of Hope about this today. City of Hope is the beneficiary of JFTC 2009.

You can endorse your check, sign it over to City of Hope and send it directly to City of Hope.
City of Hope
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, California USA 91010

On the good news side of things, 3M is offering a matching donation for the first $100,000 donation in 2009.

Mention that you would like 3M to match your gift and your refund check goes TWICE as far for the City of Hope.


This is a much better plan than sending your check to a JFTC participant and having that money used for jumps, jumpsuit, motel, food and other things before the 'excess' is given to City of Hope.

Your money gets directly to City of Hope without 'costs' subtracted from it and it gets DOUBLED by 3M - the maker of those cool post-it notes.

Please send your money to City of Hope directly.


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Jan, normally i agree with most of what you post, but this is like a nice big kick in the...well, i would say balls, but none of the JFTC jumpers actually have those, so how about this...a nice big kick in the boobies for anyone looking to raise money to participate in JFTC.

If you personally don't agree with or care to give to any JFTC participant, fine, don't. But don't come in here and advise people to screw their friends and fellow skysisters out of their opportunity to participate.

Yeah, JFTC has overhead, but that's, um, kinda the point.

jesus.

Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

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Yeah, JFTC has overhead, but that's, um, kinda the point.

Huh??

[BikerBabe 0]

it's an event to raise money. actually putting on the event (organizing, operating, etc) COSTS money, i.e. overhead.

sorry if i was vague.

Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

[MakeItHappen 15]

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There is even a better opportunity for your SNM refund checks.

I have contacted City of Hope about this today. City of Hope is the beneficiary of JFTC 2009.

You can endorse your check, sign it over to City of Hope and send it directly to City of Hope.
City of Hope
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, California USA 91010

On the good news side of things, 3M is offering a matching donation for the first $100,000 donation in 2009.

Mention that you would like 3M to match your gift and your refund check goes TWICE as far for the City of Hope.


This is a much better plan than sending your check to a JFTC participant and having that money used for jumps, jumpsuit, motel, food and other things before the 'excess' is given to City of Hope.

Your money gets directly to City of Hope without 'costs' subtracted from it and it gets DOUBLED by 3M - the maker of those cool post-it notes.

Please send your money to City of Hope directly.


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Jan, normally i agree with most of what you post, but this is like a nice big kick in the...well, i would say balls, but none of the JFTC jumpers actually have those, so how about this...a nice big kick in the boobies for anyone looking to raise money to participate in JFTC.

If you personally don't agree with or care to give to any JFTC participant, fine, don't. But don't come in here and advise people to screw their friends and fellow skysisters out of their opportunity to participate.

Yeah, JFTC has overhead, but that's, um, kinda the point.

jesus.

Lemme get this straight – You are saying that Person A has a better motive than Person B:

Person A: Send me your refund checks and I’ll put them towards my JFTC entry donations. Part of that money pays for my jumps, jumpsuit, motel, food and other sundry expenses. Whatever is leftover, about $6 for every $10, will go to City of Hope. In the meantime, I get to jump for free, stay at a motel for a week for free and get fed twice a day for free. And I get to brag about a world record, when we set it, that raised money for cancer.

Person B: Send your refund check directly to City of Hope, get it doubled by 3M. $20 goes to City of Hope for every $10 donated.

I don’t know about you, but Person B seems to have the right mindset for garnering the most money to help fight cancer. Six dollars or Twenty dollars towards City of Hope to fight cancer???

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[hipgnosis 0]

I think the issue Jan is that it appears that you are undermining people's attempts to fund raise.

Any fund raising event will have overhead, and if the event didn't occur and everyone instead sent their donations right to the beneficiary organization then they will have raised far more money.

Of course, how many donations would have been made without the event occurring and people actively fund raising for the event remains to be seen...


Bill

[BillyVance 34]

I don't think she is trying to undermine people's attempts to fund raise. I would be a little skeptical of someone posting on here that I didn't know, asking for us to send our unused checks directly to them. How do I know that person is going to put that money where it's supposed to go? Jan's point was how to help the charity better, and get more bang for your buck.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[EirAnne 0]

It seems like the posting has stirred up a can of worms. I had hoped that it was just another innovative way of trying to raise some funding.

I understand that sending money directly to a charity will ensure that all of that money is spent for that purpose.

JFTC on the other hand, is about raising money for charity AND creating a skydiving event that generates a huge amount of positive publicity for our sport. It shouldn't be a competition between the two and it certainly serves no good purpose to trash the event.

For anyone who would like to verify my identity, my JFTC participant page is:

http://jftc.jumpforthecause.com/profiles/annemaxwell

[slotperfect 7]

Please see this announcement. Thanks.

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3500811;

Arrive Safely

John